It’s this time of year again boys and girls
The end of the WCC competition season
Time to return the trophies you won in 2012
Jim Mears is looking forward to getting all the trophies back ASAP so they can be prepared for the new winners.
Bring your trophies to the club at Minet Park on Fridays or contact Jim to make arrangements for their return.
Ring on 01494862372 / Email JMearsWCC@aol.com
They must be returned no later than the AGM – Sunday 1st December 2013
REMINDER – Willesden Monthly Meeting being held in clubroom at Hillingdon Circuit at 8.00 p.m. this Friday, 1 November 2013, immediately after turbo training – why not stay and have your say.
Committee members who are unable to make this date, please send your reports to Ian Why or Wendy Mears.
Willesden CC’s Paul Stewart features on this podcast of “The Bike Show” called Going the Distance. The programme deals with how riders can start training for long distance Audax events such as the PBP and the LEL. Paul talks about the success of this year’s “Ditchling Devil”, which saw many riders tackle their very first 100+ mile event.
The programme is just under 41 minutes long and can be heard here.
Damon Peacock is widely known with Audax UK for his hard work in producing a range of films about Audax riders and riding. In this short piece Damon draws comparisons between long distance events such as the LEL and PBP with the UK National 24 hour time trial. As a result we get to briefly see WCC riders Stuart “Hippy” Birnie, Jane Swain and Arabella Maude setting their respective records on the 24 hour event held earlier this year.
At the weekend Jane Swain attended the Tricycle Association National dinner and prize presentation. She won 3 first handicap awards for National 50 and the East 25 and 100. The trophy pictured is for the fastest ladies ride over 25 miles this year.
Bigger things planned for next year. Jane pictured with Barry Charlton who is the Trike competition record holder at 10, 25 30, 50 miles and 12 hours.
Mark Brooking – Officer of all things Tricycle
We need someone or some persons with enthusiasm, imagination, and a sense of fun to revitalise our social calendar and to organize the club dinner in 2015. Elections for club officers takes place at the AGM in December. This is a very sought after post so put your names in early.
After a few years of organising the annual Reliability Trial family commitments force me to hand over the reins to someone else.
It’s a good chance for someone to take on a well established and popular event and put something back into the club and the sport. It’s not a difficult job, a ready supply of willing helpers from the club sees to that. The rewards are great, especially if you get out onto the course to take photos of the riders (Smalldean Lane is best for this) where those who can will call out their appreciation for your efforts.
If you’re interested you can mail me at squadra dot verde at gmail dot com and I’ll tell you in more detail what’s involved.
Several of our riders get a mention in this weeks Brent and Kilburn Times ( Electronic edition available here).
The weather was back to torment the riders again for Sunday’s last event of the Time trial season. 3 Willesden riders braved the conditions and of those, 2 riders Tom Zittel and Stuart Birnie claimed overall joint 2nd places with a lung busting time of 2mins 6 seconds.
Full report here – https://willesdencyclingclub.co.uk/about/time-trials/race-reports-2013-2/
A route is needed for this new ride commemorating Jack, which will be run on the same day as the renamed 10 Thames Bridges and Kaf-to-Kaf and I will hopefully get expert help designing it and then running the event. There will be a competition for best route, or given that the winner’s prize will be less than life changing, maybe it will get crowd-sourced.
The ride will be on Sunday13th April 2014. It will start from Maidenhead and it needs to be at least 200km from start to finish. The route selection will be based on:
1 Quality of the route – are the roads mainly quiet and scenic?
2 Quality of the controls – are the stops decent?
3 Your explanation of why your route should be chosen.
The route submitted needs only to be roughly viable, i.e. close enough to 200km it can be tuned to meet the AUK rules
The prize will be a pair of plimsolls, free entry for two on any of the three Jack Eason rides in 2014 and an appropriate bottle of something.
1. Entry is open to anybody
2. You should submit a route and a list of suggested controls for en-route pit stops and an explanation of why your route should be the chosen one. The judges’ attention span is quite short, by the way.
3. Suggesting Info controls is optional. A GPX trace of the route is preferred, but if that’s difficult a list of the main points the ride should go through will suffice.
4. The closing date is midnight 31sh October 2013. The result will be announced soon after and the plimsolls will be awarded on ride day.
5. Please email entries to ianoli2010-audax at yahoo dot co dot uk and include your name and contact details.
6. The start point should be assumed to be the Riverside Gardens, Maidenhead – same as the other rides.
7. Entries will be judged by me and Mr Why and our decision is final.
8. The organiser will make up other rules as he goes along, as necessary.
The 110 ride is published and the route can be found at http://ridewithgps.com/routes/3191110. The control for it and the 62K ride is Dinton Pastures near Winnersh, but your route does not have to go there.
You cannot cycle through Windsor Great Park after dusk
Jack’s inspiring audaxing life is described here.
Those with posh houses – look in the garage….
Those not in posh houses – look in the loft, or under the bed or behind the sofa… somewhere a dusty and forgotten Turbo will looking for some love. Its time has now come! Turbo Torture night will be starting at the Hillingdon circuit from Friday 25th October onwards.
Old hands will know the score, pay Ray Kelly £3.00 a week (£1.00 for Under 18’s) so he can have the pleasure of making your suffer for a full hour or more. New hands will soon be old hands.
Set-up/warm-up from 6:00 pm – The Turbo session will start at 6:30 pm for one hour.
Bring your own turbo, block for front wheel, towel, bidon and a mat to go under your turbo. If possible also remember to bring your sense of humour and a positive mental attitude, you’ll need those for the tea and biscuits afterwards.
There will be a limited number of Turbo’s available for those who do not have one.
Note: Racing on the circuit will continue as usual from 5:30pm, sign-on in the club room.
Either way “Death-Ray” Kelly is waiting for you…..
Here is your new club runs list.
As usual, it contains a mixture of predictable, boring destinations alongside exciting, new and fresh excursions, all laid on for your cycling amusement. Corrections will be posted as soon as they are pointed out, as per the established procedure.
October-December
| OCTOBER |
WCC Club Run |
Options / notes |
| 13 |
Dinton (also – Kew Bridge – special) |
KEW BRIDGE PATHS RIDE – LEADER BRIAN MOONMEET 09.30 NORTH SIDE KEW |
| 20 |
Amersham |
Deep Mill Diner |
| 27 |
Cheddington |
Canal Cafe |
| NOVEMBER | ||
| 03 |
Off Road Special – Led by Brian Moon |
09.30 Denham as per usual |
| 10 |
Ivinghoe |
|
| 17 |
Wokingham |
Farm Cafe |
| 24 |
Wendover Woods |
|
| DECEMBER | ||
| 01 |
WCC AGM |
to be preceded by the Annual Fryathlon Event tbc |
| 08 |
Chinnor Railway/Bledlow |
Festive Special, with pub lunch option |
| 15 |
Tring |
Espresso Lounge |
| 22 |
Chalfont St Giles |
Rowan Garden Centre |
| 29 |
Dorney |
Walled Garden |
Important information:
All club runs start from Oxford Road, Denham (outside Shane’s Garden Centre) at 09.30 unless otherwise stated.
All club runs will be at the speed of the slowest rider.
We recommend that you wear a hard shell helmet, in the interests of safety.
In bad weather please use a bike with mudguards and a rear mud-flap
to help keep you and other riders clean.
Great news we have received a grant from Wembley Stadium for our young riders which will enable us to supple free kit to Willesden Riders who are under 18.
Riders need to complete in a number of events in Willesden Colours. These can be Road Races, Circuit Races, Track Meetings, Time Trials up to 25 miles, Audax events under 100k, Cyclo Cross, or Mountain bike races.
From a start date of the 1st July 2013
When you have completed 10 events free Club short sleeve Jersey if you have not already had one on joining.
When you have completed 15 events free Bib shorts.
When you have completed 20 events free long sleeve Jersey.
Riders must complete a form listing the events they have taken part in to receive the free kit from Ray Kelly.
Willesden Cycling Club monthly meeting is being held this Friday 4 October 2013 at 8.00 p.m. at Minet Park. Reminder to Club Officers to send your reports to Ian or Wendy if you cannot make the meeting. Be there or be square!
We have received correspondence from fellow cyclists about a petition containing nearly 3,000 signatures campaigning against Ride London, sportives, and cycling in general across Surrey.
Please sign the petition below which is a direct response to a petition entitled: ‘Stop Surrey being turned into a cycle track’ Surrey County Council: Interact and give knowledge to those you represent.
Petition: http://www.change.org/petitions/because I am a cyclist
Please distribute to all who love the pleasure of cycling. We want THOUSANDS of signatures!
Surrey embraced the Olympics and Ride London, and only recently, thousands turned out to watch the Tour of Britain. Let’s keep building on this great legacy
Strava has made some improvements to the club pages that should help motivate us to ride this winter. You can now see who is doing the biggest rides, most miles and most climbing. Check out the new leader-board the Willesden Strava page.
Saturday October 5 brings the start of the new Willesden Audax season, kicking off with the Nyctophobic 100km and Anfractuous 200km from ride HQ at Chalfont St Peter nr Denham with wooded Chiltern lanes and rolling downs galore. The routes head west to the Waterside Café at Benson via Christmas Common, then whilst the Nyctophobic turns for home the Anfractruous heads west to the rolling downland of Wantage before heading home. In fact there are two versions of the Anfractuous this year, the regular route and an extended and officially hilly AAAnfractuous. Full details and online entry, available to everybody via the Audax UK website, at www.aukweb.net
